Doctoral Dissertation Research: Examining Diet, Mobility, and Social Dynamics Using a Multi Isotopic Approach and GIS

博士论文研究：使用多同位素方法和 GIS 检查饮食、流动性和社会动态

• 批准号: 2120596
• 负责人: Tosha Dupras
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2120596&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Examining; Diet

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). Throughout human history, many factors have influenced an individual’s mobility and diet, and in many cases, dietary practices have diverged alongside changes in other factors such as social status and belief systems. Using bioarchaeological research methods that combine skeletal analyses with aspects of environment and culture to examine diet and burial style at the population and individual levels, this doctoral dissertation research examines how social reorganization affected a broader community in past human populations. Exploring dietary choices during life and status after death advances knowledge about how food and burial practices relate to and reaffirm social roles. Broader impacts of the project include STEM training of a female graduate student, strengthening of international scientific research collaborations, and dissemination of research to the public.The project explores the relationship of belief systems and social status to diet, origins, and mobility. The investigators consider these dynamics in conjunction with age, sex, and status for two skeletal samples representing religious elites and non-elite individuals, respectively, from the same community. The research examines whether there are dietary differences based on potential status differences and whether place of origin can be identified for non-local individuals. The project utilizes a combination of biochemical, geospatial, and statistical methods, including four isotopic discriminants (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and strontium), the Bayesian FRUITS mixing model, and geospatial analysis of the study region.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》（公法117-2）全部或部分资助的。通过人类的历史，许多因素影响了个人的流动性和饮食，在许多情况下，饮食习惯与其他因素（例如社会地位和信仰体系）的变化差异。该博士学位论文研究考试使用将骨骼分析与环境和文化方面结合的生物考古学研究方法与人口和个人层面的饮食和埋葬风格结合在一起，这项博士学位论文研究考试如何在过去的人群中影响社会重组如何影响更广泛的社区。探索死亡和死亡后的饮食选择，促进了有关食物和埋葬实践如何与社会角色联系并重申社会角色的知识。该项目的更广泛影响包括对女性研究生的STEM培训，加强国际科学研究合作以及向公众进行研究的传播。该项目探讨了信仰体系与社会地位与饮食，起源和流动性的关系。研究人员认为这些动态与年龄，性别和地位的两个骨骼样本分别来自同一社区，分别代表宗教精英和非精英个人。研究检查是否基于潜在状态差异以及是否可以针对非本地个体确定原产地的饮食差异。该项目利用了生化，地理空间和统计方法的结合，包括四种同位素判别因子（碳，氮，氧气和腹膜），贝叶斯果实混合模型以及对研究区的地理空间分析，这些奖项通过评估NSF的合法任务和支持的支持。 标准。